If they did, then the US would sewer trade relations, and keep China out of WTO, etc. It would be extremely costly to any country trying something like that.
Several Norwegians were listed too, and while I don't know about Denmark or Australia, I believe Norway doesn't even have an extradition treaty with USA, so even if it had been a federal case it would be hard to get at the Norwegian defendants.
But remember that it isn't a guarantee - they can still apply for extradition, they just don't have a binding agreement regulating when such applications will be honoured.
US patents currently last 20 years from the date of application. And more importantly: It is valid, but unenforcable, from the date of application. Thus if anyone infringe on the patent in the period from it is applied for, and until it is granted (if it is), they may have to pay licensing fees for that period. (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I only talk like one on Slashdot:-))
Not really. What windowing is about is that in many cases you don't need to support timespans beyond 100 years. Which means you can slide the window.
And besides, 30 years is plenty of time to fix the software properly. Windowing is most of all a stopgap measure to fix software quickly now, and be able to do proper fixes later.
That's probably because she was from Quebec.... My French is rather poor, but I've never had any French react negatively on it. On some occasions, when the people I've been talking to think that they speak better English than I speak French, they've switched to English.
But as someone else noted, it's much easier to get a positive reaction if you at least try speaking Frecnh... Another thing that works well is to make sure they hear you speaking some other language (except English) first, and then speak to them in English.... Many French people are much more friendly when they are sure that you aren't from the US or UK - I guess they don't like all your French jokes;)
In the EU and EFTA, privacy laws are very strict. In Norway (EFTA member), you have to apply for permits to store almost any kind of personal information beyond addresses and payment information in customer databases. And there's strict rules governing how the information can be used. You are also required by law to indicate where you got the information from when using it, and the consumer has a right, protected by law, to be deleted from most registers if they ask for it.
The EU has almost as strict regulations - some EU countries such as Sweden even stricted.
In fact, due to this the EU almost made it illegal for companies in the EU to export information about persons to the US because of the lack of privacy protection in the US...
If something like what is suggested in the article happens in Australia, it will likely mean even harsher responses. EU regulations explicitly disallow a company from exporting personal information to a country with less stringent privacy regulations...
That's an old story about what is said to have happened with one of the first machine translation system back in the 60'ies. Don't know if it's true, or just another urban legend.
A license agreement isn't law. You have to agree to it to be bound to it (and if you don't agree to it, then you have no right to use the product covered by the license). But in most countries, a minor can't enter into legally binding agreements. However, minors are still bound by laws.
This has nothing to do with underwriting the IPO, but with the underwriters often allocating parts of the shares to brokerages. I won't comment on E*Trades quality, though, as I've never tried them.
Except there will be lots of others who will decide that they'll pay a little more, to be able to get shares before you do, and the price will still be pushed up.
Actually your description of a nerd fits very accurately in what I'd call a geek. I'm accept being called a nerd - I even do it myself on occasion. But being called a geek? That would be an insult.
Your argument fails miserably. If Linux isn't mainstream enough for it to be economically interesting to keep the Linux version in stock, then surely the retailers won't feel "threatened" by Linux users telling them they won't buy it from them. If any retailers feel threatened by this, it would be because they got enough requests from Linux users to warrant them carrying the Linux port.
So either you are wrong about Linux not being mainstream enough, or it won't be threatening to anyone.
XML can easily be converted to a long range of formats, including pure text. XML also supports Unicode well.
If they started requesting to get the texts in XML it would be trivial to write a few scripts to transform it to pure ASCII text, to HTML, and to other formats, so that they could offer it for download in those formats in addition to the XML source.
Whats important here is that they can still provide pure ASCII texts, while preserving more information in a format that is easy for someone else to automatically process into whatever format they like.
The first time our page was on Slashdot we had visits from about 10.000 unique IPs, resulting in more than 100.000 hits, within the first 24 hours. We then kept on getting hits...
(To the ones that bombarded me with mail after the second time we were featured on Slashdot: Be patient, we'll get to your mail, eventually... Let's just say I got MANY mails)
The Nano-X Linux version is currently less than 700kb (and not yet released). Expect the X version to be somewhat larger. But no matter how you see it: It is small.
The flexibility you have will depend entirely on the DMAP base station. I'm not sure if the current base stations support serial and Ethernet at the same time, but the DMAP standard is open and several manufacturers will be producing base stations, so the available options are increasing rapidly.
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If they did, then the US would sewer trade relations, and keep China out of WTO, etc. It would be extremely costly to any country trying something like that.
But remember that it isn't a guarantee - they can still apply for extradition, they just don't have a binding agreement regulating when such applications will be honoured.
US patents currently last 20 years from the date of application. And more importantly: It is valid, but unenforcable, from the date of application. Thus if anyone infringe on the patent in the period from it is applied for, and until it is granted (if it is), they may have to pay licensing fees for that period. (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I only talk like one on Slashdot :-))
Read their pages. The police didn't take their stuff... They "only" took copies of all documents with the word "Leonardo" in.
And besides, 30 years is plenty of time to fix the software properly. Windowing is most of all a stopgap measure to fix software quickly now, and be able to do proper fixes later.
I'd rather send the English version than a bad French translation...
But as someone else noted, it's much easier to get a positive reaction if you at least try speaking Frecnh... Another thing that works well is to make sure they hear you speaking some other language (except English) first, and then speak to them in English.... Many French people are much more friendly when they are sure that you aren't from the US or UK - I guess they don't like all your French jokes ;)
Nah. It's just that since we don't believe in god we don't have any reasons to ever waste time on that line of thinking.
Many modern compilers DO emit assembly, simply because it's easier. GCC is a prime example...
You don't even need to recompile: The entire Mozilla user interface is written in XML.
Mozilla is heavily componentized, and it shouldn't be much of a problem to remove the mail and editor components.
The EU has almost as strict regulations - some EU countries such as Sweden even stricted.
In fact, due to this the EU almost made it illegal for companies in the EU to export information about persons to the US because of the lack of privacy protection in the US...
If something like what is suggested in the article happens in Australia, it will likely mean even harsher responses. EU regulations explicitly disallow a company from exporting personal information to a country with less stringent privacy regulations...
That's an old story about what is said to have happened with one of the first machine translation system back in the 60'ies. Don't know if it's true, or just another urban legend.
A license agreement isn't law. You have to agree to it to be bound to it (and if you don't agree to it, then you have no right to use the product covered by the license). But in most countries, a minor can't enter into legally binding agreements. However, minors are still bound by laws.
This has nothing to do with underwriting the IPO, but with the underwriters often allocating parts of the shares to brokerages. I won't comment on E*Trades quality, though, as I've never tried them.
Except there will be lots of others who will decide that they'll pay a little more, to be able to get shares before you do, and the price will still be pushed up.
Actually your description of a nerd fits very accurately in what I'd call a geek. I'm accept being called a nerd - I even do it myself on occasion. But being called a geek? That would be an insult.
So either you are wrong about Linux not being mainstream enough, or it won't be threatening to anyone.
Reread the suggestion. It's about using an IDE RAID controller that bypasses most of the IDE stuff, but that works with IDE drives.
XML can easily be converted to a long range of formats, including pure text. XML also supports Unicode well.
If they started requesting to get the texts in XML it would be trivial to write a few scripts to transform it to pure ASCII text, to HTML, and to other formats, so that they could offer it for download in those formats in addition to the XML source.
Whats important here is that they can still provide pure ASCII texts, while preserving more information in a format that is easy for someone else to automatically process into whatever format they like.
Mm, no. They are nowhere near as old as the net. They are older than the web, though.
(To the ones that bombarded me with mail after the second time we were featured on Slashdot: Be patient, we'll get to your mail, eventually... Let's just say I got MANY mails)
Unix is a trademark. Linux isn't certified to use the Unix trademark. Hence, Linux is a Unix clone, but not a true Unix.
The Nano-X Linux version is currently less than 700kb (and not yet released). Expect the X version to be somewhat larger. But no matter how you see it: It is small.
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